Bands' Extreme Style Shifts

[Kerrick]

Someone on another forum brought up Sanctifica's big stylistic shift from Spirit Of Purity (black metal) to Negative B (proggy avant-garde?).  What are some other bands whose styles changed drastically?  The one that comes first to my mind is Lengsel who, similar to Sanctifica, changed from black metal to some pretty out-there avant-garde stuff.  (I really enjoy both of their albums, but their debut Solace is an absolute classic IMO.)

[Wolfform]

Vardøger.....except they quit -__- lol

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[Kerrick]

^Oh yeah, that's a good'un. Ghost Notes is easily one of my favorite metal albums; I'm very sad that we will most likely never hear anything more from them!

[MetalPioneer]

Interesting topic to think about.

Off the top of my head, these are some of the ones that I thought of first.

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Embodyment -- Grindcore -- Metalcore -- Indie Rock

Extol -- Black Metal -- Blackened Death Metal - Thrash Metal -- Progressive Thrash Metal -- Progressive Death Metal

Mortification -- Thrash Metal -- Death Metal -- Heavy Metal

Bride -- Heavy Metal -- Rock -- Grunge -- Indie -- Rapcore -- Thrash Metal -- Rock

Demoniciduth -- Black Metal -- Death Metal -- Black Metal

Living Sacrifice -- Thrash Metal -- Metalcore

Seventh Angel -- Thrash Metal -- Death/Doom Metal

The Showdown -- Metalcore -- Rock -- Metalcore

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Honestly, I don't know if it gets wilder than Embodyment and the changes that they went through. If you listen to a song from their first full-length and then the final album, you can't tell they are the same band. (For the record, I think that their Grindcore album is one of the greatest accomplishments in Christian metal and is highly underrated):

[CrimsonWarrior]

EDIT: apparently Kerrick brought this up in the first post, lol. That's what I get for not reading the entire OP before posting!

Sanctifica's two albums were quite different. Early Kekal compared to now is a massive difference as well, though it was a pretty gradual change.




EDIT 2: How did I not think of Antestor? Martyrium was doom/death, The Return of the Black Death was mid-tempo, old-school black, The Forsaken was symphonic black, and Omen was modern black. Comparing Omen and Martyrium it doesn't sound like the same band anymore.

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